Captain Bowen has published a little pamphlet of affidavits, which prove that Gunnilda attempted to bribe her father’s groom to perjure himself; but he begged to be excused.  Nothing more appears against the mother, but that Miss pretended her mamma had an aversion to Lord Lorn, (an aversion to a Marquis!) and that she did not dare to acquaint so tender a parent with her lasting passion for him.  Still I am persuaded that both the mother and the aunt were in the plot, whatever it was.  I saw Lady Cecilia last night, and made all your speeches, and received their value in return for you.

Good Hannah More is killing herself by a new fit of benevolence, about a young girl with a great fortune, who has been taken from school at Bristol to Gretna Green, and cannot be discovered; nor the apothecary who stole her.  Mrs. Garrick, who suspects, as I do, that Miss Europa is not very angry with Mr. Jupiter, had Very warm words, a few nights ago, at the Bishop of London’s, with Lady Beaumont; but I diverted the quarrel by starting the stale story of the Gunning.  You know Lady Beaumont’s eagerness:  she is ready to hang the apothecary with her own hands; and he certainly is criminal enough.  Poor Hannah lives with attorneys and Sir Sampson Wright;(781) and I have seen her but once since she came to town.  Her ungrateful proteg`ee, the milkwoman, has published her tragedy, and dedicated it to a patron as worthy as herself, the Earl-bishop of Derry.(782)

At night.

Well! our wedding is over very properly, though with little ceremony; for the men were in frocks and white waistcoats; most of the women in white, and no diamonds but on the Duke’s wife; and nothing of ancient fashion but two bride-maids.  The endowing purse I believe, has been left off, ever since broad-pieces were called in and melted down.  We were but eighteen persons in all, chiefly near relations of each side; and of each side a friend or two:  of the first sort, the Greatheds.  Sir Peter Burrell gave away the bride.  The poor Duchess-mother wept excessively:  She is now left quite alone; her two daughters married, and her other children dead; she herself, I fear, in a very dangerous way.  She goes directly to Spa, where the new-married are to meet her.  We all separated in an hour and a half.  The Elliot-girl(783) was there, and is pretty:  she rolls in the numerous list of my nephews and nieces.

I am now told that our Indian skirmish was a victory, and that Tippoo Saib and all his cavalry and elephants, ran away; but sure I am, that the first impression made on me by those who spread the news, was not triumphant; nor can I enjoy success in that country, which we have so abominably usurped and plundered.  You must wait for a new secretary of state till next post.  The Duke of Leeds is said to have resigned from bad health.  The Ducs de Richelieu(784) and De Pienne, and Madame de St. Priest, are arrived here.  Mr. Fawkener does not go to Berlin till Wednesday * still the stocks do not believe in the war.